Die Weber

Overview

The emaciated weavers deliver their homework to the factory owner Dreißiger and receive their wages, on which they cannot live and cannot die. Driven by hunger, they ask for more money, but to no avail. Only the young baker and the reservist Jäger put up a fight, and both manage to encourage a large group of weavers to revolt against the factory owner. They break into his house and destroy it, whereupon he flees. The revolt continues, the weavers move through the surrounding villages, where more people join them. A little later, the military arrives to intervene against the angry crowd and restore the old order...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 1, 1962

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

East Germany, Germany

Production

Fernsehen der DDR

Cast

Roman Silberstein,Günter Naumann,Fritz Links,Manfred Borges,Walter Richter-Reinick,Wolfgang Sasse,Otto Dierichs,Liska Merbach,Fritz Hofbauer,Christoph Beyerttand 4 more

Director

Hubert Hoelzke

Writer

Gerhart Hauptmann

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt10563222